Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, ...

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Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

They are found everywhere in nature, from the shapes of mountains ... completely coincidental — a serendipitous byproduct of ...

Their work was published Feb. 26 in Nature. "This changes the way we think ... Peter Wainwright at the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology. Wainwright's lab studies the evolution and ...

This video examines the vocabulary essential for understanding the nature of science and evolution and illustrates how evolution is a powerful, well-supported scientific explanation for the ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 208 No. 5 (May 1963), p. 45 doi:10.1038 ...